We’ve said it time and time again, and we still mean it from the bottom of our hearts: if a zombie apocalypse ever breaks out, we want to be as close to ‘Slingshot Master’ Joerg Sprave as humanly possible. While the German slingshot sensei has created everything from an Oreo Cookie Separation Pump Gun to the ultra-deadly Machete Slingshot, it is perhaps his latest that might deliver the most recognizable kind of pain…assuming you know what it feels like to step on a LEGO brick while barefoot. According to Sprave, the LEGO brick has many desirable qualities for ammo: they’re cheap, hard, edgy, and indestructible. But they are also not…

Mosaic Manufacturing announced a new cloud-based multi-material software tool for 3D printing, CANVAS. The Canadian company has been busy building and marketing the Palette, which we’ve covered previously. This device is an ingenious 3D printer accessory which dynamically splices differently colored input filaments together in just the right sequence and lengths to enable printing of a multicolored (or indeed multimaterial) object. But while this hardware is quite interesting, there is the matter of software to drive it. How can a print job know where to put which material? Most, if not all, commonly used desktop 3D printing software is focused on single-material (and color) objects. And in the few software…

While not feasible for every product out there, ceramic materials are one of the few natural materials available to us that can be formed into just about anything. Best of all, it’s a sustainable and cheap material to work with. But ceramic furniture? Inspired by German machinery manufacturer Carl Schlickeysen, inventor of the first machine made to produce bricks by extrusion, Madrid-based ENORME Studio recently created a modular furniture system that makes perfect use of that ceramic good stuff. Consisting of a modular metal support bars, the SCHLICKEYSEN system makes use of curved ceramic bricks made through an extrusion-based process that can be used to create something as small as…

What if you could surf on tram tracks? Faced with rough cobblestone streets instead of smooth and paved roads, these creative skaters created a workaround by modding their boards to fit the tram tracks embedded within the cobblestone streets…effectively providing an ultimate smooth ride. Featuring one wheel in the front center of the board and two wheels in the back, the resulting board design lets these shredders shred where no shredder has shredded so eloquently before in the streets of ancient Portugal and beyond: https://youtu.be/3xi5JmMIPRE Helmets, anybody??

This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist knocks you in the pop sockets with head-boppin’ groove tuneage to help propel you through the work week in style. Whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw, or working that 3D geometry all day, consider these fresh tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start things off with “Smoke Rings” from Modern Vices and work our way through tracks from Dog Bite, Video Age, Sweet Valley, Henry Hall, and others before wrapping up with “Future Primitive” from Paper Cuts. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want to…

Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Each Monday, we’ll link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.…